Spaces of the Cinematic Home (eBook, ePUB)

Behind the Screen Door
Redaktion: Andrews, Eleanor; Pheasant-Kelly, Fran; Hockenhull, Stella

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the ways in which the house appears in films and the modes by which it moves beyond being merely a backdrop for action. Specifically, it explores the ways that domestic spaces carry inherent connotations that filmmakers exploit to enhance meanings and pleasures within film.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317648819
• Artikelnr.: 43437030

Autorenporträt

Eleanor Andrews is Senior Lecturer in Italian and Course Leader for Film Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Stella Hockenhull is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Fran Pheasant-Kelly is MA Course Leader and Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Eleanor Andrews, Stella Hockenhull, Fran Pheasant-Kelly 1.
Carl's Moving Castle: 'Animated' Houses and the Renovation of Child's Play
in Up (2009) Christopher Holliday 2. Peas, Parsnips and Patriotism: Images
of the Garden in the Second World War Stella Hockenhull 3. "King for a
Day": Performance and Expression in the Cinematic Space of the Basement
Scott Martin 4. Kim in the Sitting Room: The Function of Domestic Space in
the Construction of Star Image Phil Davey 5. At Home with the Caesars: The
Emperor Tiberius and the Ambiguity of Place in Historical and Epic Films
Paul Brighton 6. The Dining Room: Authenticity, Immersion and Reproduction?
Ann Eatwell 7. A Drama of Solitude: The Library as Cocoon in
LuchinoVisconti's Conversation Piece Pasquale Iannone 8. Reframing the
Material and Imaginative Geographies of the Home: Chinese filmmaker Liu
Jiayin's Oxhide II (2009) Jean Amato 9. Furnishing the Living Room in Film
Noir: Disillusion and the Armchair Hollie Price 10. Whither Shall I Wander?
Up and Down the Staircase in Film Eleanor Andrews 11. Intimate Spaces,
Extimate Subjects: The Bedroom in Horror Films Andrew Hock Soon Ng 12. A
Room Going Spare: Lodgers, Nannies, and Strangers in the House Mark Jones
13. Monstrous Men and Bathroom Mirrors: The Bathroom as Revelatory Space in
American Cinema Glen Donnar 14. Secrets, Memory and Imagination: The
Psychic Space of the Cinematic Attic Fran Pheasant-Kelly